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Comment by aristofun

The general sentiment of being aware about your career and decisions is true.

But this reminds me of what I hate about modern corporate “culture” the most. And what is broken about it the most.

Im speaking about the rat race. Tge fact, that you have to waste a noticeable part of your work time, effort and energy to sell your work instead of doing it. To the point where good salesmen make a “career” and become your bosses without any correlation to their work abilities or even management skills. Those are very good at designing their careers.

As a result the more corrupted the company with this style of internal management the more reliable it drowns in a swamp of ineffectiveness.

In a well functioning company or society “building a career” shouldn’t be a goal nor priority. It should be the natural outcome (more or less) of a “job very well done” that is a true priority.

Yes we’re not in a perfect world. But at least we should try to reach our ideals rather than promoting rat race mentality as a norm.

parent aristofun 10 months ago

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